Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

CNV-association meta-analysis in 191,161 European adults reveals new loci associated with anthropometric traits

  • Aurélien Macé,
  • Marcus A. Tuke,
  • Patrick Deelen,
  • Kati Kristiansson,
  • Hannele Mattsson,
  • Margit Nõukas,
  • Yadav Sapkota,
  • Ursula Schick,
  • Eleonora Porcu,
  • Sina Rüeger,
  • Aaron F. McDaid,
  • David Porteous,
  • Thomas W. Winkler,
  • Erika Salvi,
  • Nick Shrine,
  • Xueping Liu,
  • Wei Q. Ang,
  • Weihua Zhang,
  • Mary F. Feitosa,
  • Cristina Venturini,
  • Peter J. van der Most,
  • Anders Rosengren,
  • Andrew R. Wood,
  • Robin N. Beaumont,
  • Samuel E. Jones,
  • Katherine S. Ruth,
  • Hanieh Yaghootkar,
  • Jessica Tyrrell,
  • Aki S. Havulinna,
  • Harmen Boers,
  • Reedik Mägi,
  • Jennifer Kriebel,
  • Martina Müller-Nurasyid,
  • Markus Perola,
  • Markku Nieminen,
  • Marja-Liisa Lokki,
  • Mika Kähönen,
  • Jorma S. Viikari,
  • Frank Geller,
  • Jari Lahti,
  • Aarno Palotie,
  • Päivikki Koponen,
  • Annamari Lundqvist,
  • Harri Rissanen,
  • Erwin P. Bottinger,
  • Saima Afaq,
  • Mary K. Wojczynski,
  • Petra Lenzini,
  • Ilja M. Nolte,
  • Thomas Sparsø,
  • Nicole Schupf,
  • Kaare Christensen,
  • Thomas T. Perls,
  • Anne B. Newman,
  • Thomas Werge,
  • Harold Snieder,
  • Timothy D. Spector,
  • John C. Chambers,
  • Seppo Koskinen,
  • Mads Melbye,
  • Olli T. Raitakari,
  • Terho Lehtimäki,
  • Martin D. Tobin,
  • Louise V. Wain,
  • Juha Sinisalo,
  • Annette Peters,
  • Thomas Meitinger,
  • Nicholas G. Martin,
  • Naomi R. Wray,
  • Grant W. Montgomery,
  • Sarah E. Medland,
  • Morris A. Swertz,
  • Erkki Vartiainen,
  • Katja Borodulin,
  • Satu Männistö,
  • Anna Murray,
  • Murielle Bochud,
  • Sébastien Jacquemont,
  • Fernando Rivadeneira,
  • Thomas F. Hansen,
  • Albertine J. Oldehinkel,
  • Massimo Mangino,
  • Michael A. Province,
  • Panos Deloukas,
  • Jaspal S. Kooner,
  • Rachel M. Freathy,
  • Craig Pennell,
  • Bjarke Feenstra,
  • David P. Strachan,
  • Guillaume Lettre,
  • Joel Hirschhorn,
  • Daniele Cusi,
  • Iris M. Heid,
  • Caroline Hayward,
  • Katrin Männik,
  • Jacques S. Beckmann,
  • Ruth J. F. Loos,
  • Dale R. Nyholt,
  • Andres Metspalu,
  • Johan G. Eriksson,
  • Michael N. Weedon,
  • Veikko Salomaa,
  • Lude Franke,
  • Alexandre Reymond,
  • Timothy M. Frayling,
  • Zoltán Kutalik

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00556-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Individual SNPs have small effects on anthropometric traits, yet the impact of CNVs has remained largely unknown. Here, Kutalik and co-workers perform a large-scale genome-wide meta-analysis of structural variation and find rare CNVs associated with height, weight and BMI with large effect sizes.